Surfers Now Able To Bring Boards On Metrolink Trains

Surfers are now able to bring their boards when traveling by Metrolink to Southland beaches. The railroad has added surfboard storage netting to cars that previously were designated for bicycles. Every train on all lines will have a bike-and- board car, each with room for five surfboards. “This is a natural step for our service in making train […]

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Professor Working To Create First-Of-Its Kind LGBTQ Resource Center At Valley College

A local university professor is working to create a first-of-its-kind resource center at Los Angeles Valley College for LGBTQ students who have no place to congregate.   Hasmik Arakelyan is a professor of business law and psychology at LAVC, where she is also the faculty adviser for the student-run Gay-Straight Alliance club. She also teaches psychology at Cal State […]

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Burbank faces another deficit and possible cuts to public safety

Burbank officials spent roughly six hours Tuesday going through the proposed 2017-18 fiscal year budget, in which the city faces another deficit, may eliminate some firefighter positions and could earmark funds to purchase body-worn cameras for police officers.

Cindy Giraldo, the city’s financial…

Board Of Education Votes To Close Down 2 L.A. Charter Schools

California’s State Board of Education has voted to close down two Los Angeles charter schools run by a nonprofit being investigated by the U.S. Department of Education and the inspector general of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Some parents and teachers at the schools cried through their testimony Thursday at an emotional hearing, which ended with the […]

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Cockroach infestations temporarily shut down these San Fernando Valley restaurants

Three restaurants in the San Fernando Valley were temporarily closed last week due to major public health hazards. Between April 30 and May 6, those facilities had their health permits suspended for cockroach infestations, according to a report from the Los Angeles County Public Health Department. Restaurants and markets whose permits are suspended must close […]

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The Wave House

Gayle Anderson was live in Venice to continue her HOME SWEET HOME series at THE WAVE HOUSE by Mario Romano. For more information, please take a look at the website. If you have questions, please feel free to call Gayle Anderson at 323-460-5732 or e-mail Gayle at Gayle.Anderson@KTLA.com.

Holocaust survivors remembered in interfaith outpouring

As a large audience packed Temple Emanu El in Burbank Tuesday night for the 33rd annual Days of Remembrance commemoration of the Holocaust, the need to stand up against a renewed perception of global fear and hatred hung in the air.

“It is a debt owed not only to those in the past, or of those…